624 ADDKNDA. 



Page ia2. Platycephalus japonicus. 

 n-j>. Young. China. Presented by Captain Sir E. Belcher, C.B. 



Page 191. Hpplichthys langsdorflBi. 

 Add to the synonymy : — 

 Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl. iii. Japan, p. 11. 

 s. Dried specimen. Japan. 



Page 201. Trigla lineata. 



r. Adult: not good state. Lanzarote. Presented by the Rev. 

 E. T. Lowe. 



Page 205. Trigla polyommata. 



d. Adult. North Australia. Purchased of Dr. Bowerbank. — 

 D. 8 I 11. A. 13. 



Page 205. Tr^la gurnardus. 



The observations of ParneU on the identity of T. gurnardus and 

 T. cuculiis have been confirmed by Thompson, in Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. 1839, ii. p. 413. 



Page 214. Agonus spinosissimus. 

 Figured by Gaimard, Voy. Sccmdin. pi. 5. f. 2. 



Page 215. Agonus decagonus. 



Figured by Gaimard, Voy. Scandin. pi. 5. f. 1. 



Page 216. Add a new species : — 

 2. Aspidophoroides inermis. 

 D. 5. A. 5. C. 10. P. 10. V. 2. L. lat. 41. 

 No spines above the snout. Body moderately long. Black, ob- 

 scurely marbled with brownish. 

 a. Fine specimen. Vancouver Island. Voyage of H.M.S. Plumper. 



Description of the specimen. — The body is prismatic, octahedral 

 before the dorsal fin, hexahedral behind it, a keel running along each 

 series of shields. The anterior part of the body is much broader than 

 high, and the back, between the head and the dorsal, is concave ; its 

 greatest depth, at the root of the pectoral, is one-fourteenth of the 

 total length, its gi'eatest width one-ninth, the length of the head 

 one-fifth. The head is flat, depressed, triangular ; the interorbital 

 space grooved, and rather narrower than the orbit. The length of 



